Oluwaseun Olayiwola - Strange Beach _alt_Jack Whitefield – Keunyser fortified enclosures

fortified enclosures

In their noise and visual obliqueness

into poetic images that empathise with a group that is often burdened with negative stereotyping

part aide-memoire

Jacob Rosenberg

Oluwaseun Olayiwola - Strange Beach _alt_Jack Whitefield – Keunyser fortified enclosuresStrange Beach is the debut collection from poet and choreographer Oluwaseun Olayiwola. Intimate and erotic, ecological and philosophical, the poems in Strange Beach illuminate the body as a porous landscape across which existential dramas, filial fractures and sexual reckonings occur. The collection ventures across the same Atlantic Ocean as Claudia Rankines Citizen, which is the same Atlantic Ocean in Lowells Life Studies, to reveal a queer